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Biographical Sketch of Linton Stephens BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF LINTON STEPHENS, (Late Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia,) CONTAINING A SELECTION OF HIS LETTERS, SPEECHES, STATE PAPERS, ETC. EDITED BY JAMES D. WADDELL. Heu! quanto minus est cum reliquis Versari quam tui meminisse.—SHENSTONE PORTAGE PUBLICATIONS Portage Publications, Inc. Colorado Springs, Colorado www.portagepub.com © 2000, 2003 by Portage Publications, Inc. Portage Publications believes the underlying text in this document is in the public domain. Master created December 11, 2003, 11:14 pm. Except for correction of minor typographical errors in the text and reformatting the document to better suit modern output media, this book is an unabridged republication of the version whose publication information follows on this page. This information is provided for historical reference purposes only: Atlanta, Georgia: Dodson & Scott—No. 38 Broad Street. 1877. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, By James D. Waddell, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. TO LOGAN EDWIN BLECKLEY, (Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia,) WHO NOW SO WORTHILY ADORNS THE SEAT ON THAT HIGH TRIBUNAL TO WHICH LINTON STEPHENS, FOR A BRIEF TERM, IMPARTED SPLENDID ILLUSTRATION, THESE UNPRETENDING PAGES ARE RESPECTFULLY AND Affectionately Inscribed. THERE WOULD SEEM TO BE FITNESS, IN THIS HUMBLE WAY, IN LINKING THE NAME OF THE ONE WITH THE MEMORY OF THE OTHER. INTRODUCTION. THE life of Linton Stephens was one of character rather than of incident—more the life of a thinker than an actor upon the stage of human affairs. He chose to be a spectator of passing events, and was content to weigh their significance and watch their succession through the “loopholes of retreat,” so as not “to feel the pressure of the crowd.” He had little relish for the hot arena of the world-strife. The mild dignity that environs the good citizen was more beautiful and more attractive in his eyes, and more grateful to his tastes and habitudes, than “the applause of listening senates,” or the victor’s wreath of laurel. The blaze of public notoriety he shunned. He shrunk from all manner of self-exposition or display. Vain-glory was not among the imperfections of his nature. He was perfectly satis- fied with knowing the truth of anything, or any fact, himself— uncaring whether the outside world appreciated his knowledge thereof or not; hence, he had no ambition to make history: he was content to study its lessons, interpret its facts, and learn wisdom from its teachings. Although it was impossible for a man of the parts he had, not to be conspicuous among men; and although his opinions upon every subject—large enough to agitate a free peo- ple—were anxiously sought after, impatiently waited for, and eagerly canvassed, yet he never held, nor—left to his own volition— ever aspired to hold, high political station. For this reason, the gen- eral reader of these pages will remark the lacking, somewhat, of that significance of events in the story of his life which imparts the chief interest, attraction, and charm to biography. LINTON STEPHENS. THE paternal grandfather of Linton Stephens was Alexander Stephens, an Englishman by birth. He was scarcely nineteen years of age when the affair of 1745 transpired; yet, young as he was, he ardently espoused the cause of Charles Edward, “the Young Cheva- lier,” as he was called. When fate frowned upon the fortunes of the “Pretender’s Son,” the vigilance and the vengeance of exasperated power were eluded by seeking refuge in America. He at first found shelter and security among the Shawnee Indians in the colony of Pennsylvania. This was in the year 1746. How long he remained among that tribe is not definitely known—probably until near the breaking out of the Revolutionary war. Fifty years had rolled over his head, when the curtain rose upon that drama, “yet was his eye not dim, nor his natural force abated.” He early and eagerly embarked in the Colonial struggle for independence. We may imag- ine that the memory of wrongs, real or supposed, which he had suf- fered in his native land, stimulated the zeal and nerved the arm of the exile in a cause which his judgment, without such incentive already approved as just. He enlisted as a private, and when Inde- pendence was achieved, his military rank was that of Captain in the Pennsylvania forces. Captain Stephens seems to have been of the class of men— numerous enough in his day, now almost extinct—that “hate ease,” are full of enterprise, fond of adventure, restless, always moving, if not always advancing. Before the close of the war, he married Catharine, daughter of Andrew Baskins, a gentleman of repute and the wealthy proprietor of what was then, and for years afterwards, known as Baskins’ Ferry, at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers. The marriage seems to have been displeasing to the father-in-law—for what reason we cannot conjecture, unless it was, that he looked upon his son-in-law as a “Soldier of fortune,” bred, as he perhaps imagined, in the Dalgetty school, and unworthy of matri- monial alliance with a prospective heiress, who should count her possessions by so many thousands. Be that as it may, after the con- JUDGE LINTON STEPHENS. 7 summation of the marriage, the daughter was discarded; and Cap- tain Stephens, some time after the war, and after all attempts at reconciliation had proved to be unavailing, emigrated to Georgia, in 1795, bringing along with him little other treasure than a wife, a large number of children, and an unbroken spirit. He first pitched his tent in Elbert county, but finally settled in Wilkes, now Taliaferro county, where he died in 1813. He lived to the patriarchal age of eighty-seven, and his remains lie entombed but a little way distant from the grave-yard of the old homestead. Andrew Baskins Stephens, son of Alexander, was born in the State of Pennsylvania, in the year 1783. He was twelve years old when his father moved to Georgia. Facilities for academical instruc- tion were limited and scant throughout Georgia and the Carolinas at that day. Liberal education was the rare distinction of the children of affluence only. Not to mention board-bills and traveling expenses, few could command means wherewith to meet the tuition fees of colleges and schools of learning in distant and more highly favored sections of the country. Andrew, born to no patri- mony, shared the common fate of other poor boys of the time and neighborhood. The instruction doled out to him must have been essentially rudimental in kind, variety and degree. Indeed, the scho- lastic acquisitions of an alumnus of an institution, whose curricu- lum comprised reading, writing and cyphering, and which nothing but the inexorable exigence of such a state of society could create or would tolerate—the “Old Field School”—could scarcely have been grammatical, much less literary. But nature had dealt more generously with the boy than fortune. He was endowed with uncommon intellectual faculties; he had sound practical judgment; he was a safe counselor, sagacious, self-reliant, candid and coura- geous. He was held in high estimation as one of the “solid men” of the community—a man of inflexible integrity and great weight of character. He had large influence over the opinions and conduct of his neighbors; they counseled with him on matters of business, unbosomed their cares and vexations to him; he surveyed their lands for them; defined the metes and bounds thereof; and he was the common arbiter who settled their differences and disputes, and from his decision there was seldom any appeal. He was twice mar- ried: first in 1807 to Margaret, daughter of Aaron Grier and sister of 8 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF the late Robert Grier, whose name is yet a household word through- out our Southern States.1 It is among the traditions of the neighborhood, wherein she dwelt and died, that Mrs. Stephens was a woman of capital sense and fair culture; remarkable for independence of thought; devoted to domestic pursuits; of cheerful, amiable temper, and unobtrusive, elevated piety. Three children only of this marriage survived infancy. These were a daughter, Mary, the eldest; Aaron Grier, the next, and Alexander H., the youngest, who was born February 11th, 1812. In 1814, Mr. Stephens married, in second nuptials, Matilda S., daughter of Colonel John Lindsay, of Wilkes county. He was of Scotch-Irish stock. He bore a conspicuous part in the struggle for Independence, rose to the rank of Colonel in the Georgia forces, and was esteemed a gallant officer, and wary, skillful commander. He lost his sword-hand in battle, and in consequence of wearing a covering of silver over the stump, he acquired the sobriquet of “Old Silver-fist.” After the war, he grew to be rich in this world’s goods, and, at one time, was the owner of valuable landed estates on Little river, near Phillips’ Bridge; but good fortune finally forsook him; he became involved in debt by security, and died leaving his estate very much reduced. He had eight children, and the patrimony, when divided among them, amounted only to about six or seven hundred dollars to each. He was reputed to be a man of strong mind, sterling honesty, unbending will, stormy passions; the concurrent testimony of all the family traditions is, that he was ardent in friendships, implacable in hate, fond of good cheer, frank, fearless and generous to a fault. Some of these characteristics the daughter, Matilda, inherited. The basis of her intellectual character was good sense; the basis of her moral character was truth; her manners were digni- fied; her disposition was quiet and cheerful, and in all the relations of social life, she was exemplary and amiable.
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